In the highest office of the tallest building in Lavender City, behind a fine mahogany desk, sat a woman working furiously at something on a computer.
Her moderate dressing did nothing to hide her beauty as she looked like she was in her late twenties although she was in her thirties.
Probably 5"4 ft tall with long black hair, a heart defined face with a pair of blue eyes as well as a curvy body on the moderate side, Cassandra Turner was very stunning.
"Ah finally done" Cassie sighed. Grabbing her cup of coffee and getting up from her table to stretch her legs she wandered over to the large glass window with a breathtaking view of the city and sighed once more.
Standing there images of that night came through her,
"No mom don't leave me please, please don't leave me all by myself", her desperate cries and pleas that night came flooding into her mind until she was interrupted by a knock on the door.
"Come in".
"Miss Turner, you have a meeting in 20 minutes", her secretary Leah said as soon as she was through the door.
"And these are the reports you wanted", she continued as she placed a set of files on her desk.
"Ok thank you, please reschedule my meeting with my dad for tomorrow I don't think I'll be able to make it today"
"Sure thing Miss Turner. Would that be all”?
"Yes it would you may go"
"Her father",she sighed. Her thoughts soon drifted to him as she turned back to the window.
Ethan Turner the man who had abandoned her and her mother. At some point in their life he had just packed up and left leaving her and her mother heartbroken and struggling to survive.
Recently, he had come back to her on his knees begging her to forgive him. She initially had no interest in what he had to say but her friend Sarah was really good with words and had convinced her into meeting with him and she had scheduled that meeting for today. Although obviously she had to reschedule it for tomorrow because she had somewhere to be later.
"Was that the real reason?", she asked herself or was this just her last way of fighting this meeting?
It's not that she hated her father exactly. Overtime any feelings of anger or hatred she felt for him disappeared or rather she had focused them into her work and becoming successful. But she won't deny that some part of her actually blamed him for the tragedy that occurred back then.
She felt that if he was in their lives maybe her mom wouldn't have died. Still thinking back to that night she really couldn't remember much just her desperate pleas for help, how it rained heavily that day and a particular strange clicking sound and scent that hung in the air that night.
She had tried everything to get herself to remember anything that point towards her mother's murderer from meditation to hypnosis but nothing worked.
But she wasn't going to give up that easily she wouldn't have gotten to where she was today if she had always given up so easily. One day she would find her mother's murderer and make him pay.
Pulling herself out from all those thoughts she decided it was time she started heading down to the board meeting. She knew for sure that those gender biased old men would already be getting really impatient. She smirked when she thought about the board of directors and how gender biased they were towards her. Especially Director Grant for some reason this particular man was always harsh towards her. Why though? It was a mystery to her. Anyways she wasn't a pushover and she always made sure to let them know their place and whose company it was exactly.
Pushing open the doors to the conference room, Cassie slowly yet elegantly walked in. As soon as she walked in they all stood up as a sign of respect for her. She acknowledged everyone with a nod and went ahead to sit at her seat which was at the head of the table. Everyone else also took their seats. The board meeting commenced immediately with the secretary reading the minutes of the last meeting as no one dared to comment on her obvious lateness.
"As we all know Tuner Enterprises lost the contract with the investment company from overseas, making us loose a total of 200 billion USD", the secretary announced.
Cassie looked on languidly even after hearing that waiting calmly for what was sure to come next
"With all due respect Miss Turner, I think you have a role to play in this. It is not the first time your arrogant personality has been received poorly by investors", Director Grant stated
"And with all due respect Director Grant, you should have told me you wanted a pleasure girl to smile pleasantly at my clients to boost their ego rather than a CEO", Cassie calmly replied him. All the board members were shocked by such a reply. Standing up she continued, "I'm sorry to disappoint you but I am a CEO and I do not need to do that just to get people to sign contracts and deals with me because I and my company are completely up to the task"
At this point everyone in the conference room was completely terrified of the chilly look in her eyes even Director Grant couldn't help but shiver a bit.
"Well that would be all for today gentlemen", Cassie said as she strode to the door leaving everyone in awe.
Yes she was Cassandra Turner and she was a boss bitch.
In a dark and secluded alleyway a scream that seemed to come from underground was heard. Inside a club, through a secret passage underground, into a dimly lit room on the floor a man was kneeling surrounded by some fierce looking men. One look at him and you know he had been badly beaten. He had a black eye and bruises all over him. There was blood streaming down his mouth. In short he was in a bad shape.Just then the door opened and a man walked in. Even in the dim light one could see that he had really good features. He was about 5"8 ft tall, with a chiseled face and a square jawline and charming brown eyes making up his facial features. And he also had short jet black hair that seemed really silky and he had it slicked back giving him a handsome and smart look.In the button up long sleeved shirt he had on that stuck to his body you could see his well toned body. You could easily mistake him for one of those high end models. In short he was really hands
It was 9:40pm as Leo drove along the roads. He just had a rough day and he was feeling a little grumpy."Blame it on that snitch", he thoughtAll he knew was that he was tired and he just couldn't wait to get home and have a good rest but unfortunately things don't always go the way you want do they?On his way he received a phone call from his dad telling him to head over to the old house immediately. He knew it must have been an emergency he could hear the urgency in his father's tone. So with a groan he turned the car around and headed straight to the old house.At a luxurious penthouse Cassie sat on a couch reading through some files. The penthouse screamed "money" as one could easily see from all the luxurious and expensive furniture inside.Cassie sat with the files in her hand not really studying them as her mind was occupied.She finally sighed got up and walked to a drawer and pulled out a simple necklace
10:01pm Leo pulled up at a mansion. And the gates automatically opened. He drove into the compound, parked his car and got out. At the door he was accosted by the butler; Sanchez who had been around for like practically forever. He was the one person he felt really close to."Master Leo, you are welcome back to the old house", Butler Sanchez greeted."Thank you Sanchez although I can't say if I'm actually happy to be back here", he replied. The butler smiled at him and started leading him through the hallway "This way please, your father is waiting for you in his study"Walking down the long hallway, there were paintings on either sides of the walls. Bright chandeliers lit up the hallway. It would be considered stunning to anyone but Leo. Being back here after a while sparked no particular feelings in him, rather he felt empty.At the end of the hallway was a large living room. All of the furniture were made from the fines
Cassie was immediately alert. She got up and reached into her drawer for her gun. Call her paranoid but there was a time she felt she was being watched she had gotten herself a gun then. She also attended a martial arts class because she felt she needed to know how to defend herself. She hid behind her door with the gun in her hands and listened. The intruder was taking rather noisy steps and it's either he thought she wasn't home or he was just really arrogant. Either way he would soon learn that he had picked the wrong person to mess with. After the count of three she immediately opened the door and pointed her gun at the intruder."Ahhhh", Sarah screamed"What the hell?!", Cassie yelled"Sarah what the hell are you doing here?!""And what the hell are you doing?!""I thought you were an intruder", Cassie replied putting her gun down"How the hell did you get in here anyway?", she asked"Um don't you remember tha
Cassie and Sarah had arrived at the park earlier. Sarah immediately started drooling as soon as she saw the candy stores. Sarah has a sweet tooth so she's a sucker for sweets. She dragged Cassie to the candy store and stood there trying all the different flavor of candy trying to decide which one she would by. Cassie just stood there watching Sarah melt over the candies laughing. Sarah was always so hilarious when it came to sweets and right now she was stuffing her mouth with them making her look really funny. With a big smile plastered on her face, she realized that for the first time in a while she actually felt genuinely happy. Looking around the park, she locked eyes with someone else and for that moment as they stared deeply into each other's eyes, Cassie was mesmerized. Only one word came to her mind at that moment; "handsome". Yes the stranger in front of her, staring at her right now was so freaking handsome. His well sculpted face and those deep brown e
Earlier that day, Leo had attended his appointment. He was supposed to meet a business partner that afternoon then meet a representative from another mafia gang later that night. But he had been caught off guard. He didn't know that it was a trap set for him by the Santinos. They had obviously had help from an insider for them to have had him fooled so well.What happened was Leo had showed up on time for his appointment with the representative from the other mafia gang on time. But when he got there the other had not yet arrived so he waited. He didn't know that outside the Santinos were already putting their men in position. He waited for 30 minutes and by then he had already started getting really impatient. He called out to the man who he thought was a "muscle" from the other mafia gang and asked in a cold and domineering voice that would give anyone chills, "When is your boss getting here?" Soon the man had replied him stating that his boss had
The first thing Leo thought was that he had been captured by the men running after him the previous night. But then he faintly remembered escaping last night. So what happened? Where was he? He looked round the room. He was currently on a King sized bed. It looked like he was in a hotel room. There was a vanity table next to the bed and it's content led him to believe that the occupant was a woman. There was a make up set on the table, some hairbrushes and fragrance. But why would he be in a woman's hotel room? Then it hit him; he was kissing someone last night! He remembered running towards a club's back door entrance and seeing a woman standing there. She had clear blur eyes and looked so much like the lady he had seen at the park earlier that day. In a bid to escape from his pursuers he had grabbed her and kissed her. He also remembered she seemed really angry and had slapped just before he passed out. So was that where he was now? That woman's hotel room? Bu
As he stood so close to her that Cassie could feel his breath on her skin. It tingled and it was like something inside of her awoke. She looked back up at him with the same fierce eyes trying to conceal what she was actually feeling inside. She replied, "You can consider it however you want. If you want to consider it a threat go ahead". Cassie slowly moved away from him and walked back into the living room. "Although I would consider it a friendly reminder", she continued. Leo was stunned. Never had a woman or anyone ever challenged him like that. He swiftly turned back to look at her and asked, "You don't know who I am, do you?". Cassie looked a little bit surprised as she turned back to him and replied, "No, should I?" "Well you should considering I am........", Leo was going to introduce himself when she suddenly interrupted him "Oh wait I just realized I have no interest in the identity of a perver